<p>Have you ever considered the language of an invitation you receive to a wedding or formal event? Traditionally those invitations will request the honor of your presence and often, if you think hard about it, your presence would be the best present you could give. How do you typically show up to events in your own life? Do you consider the possibility that each day is a brand new present, wrapped up especially for you by the greatest, grandest you you could possibly become? Would that change the story you tell about yourself and your life? Because every day you are telling that story, not only in the language you use, but also in the way you present yourself and the energy you bring with you. Whether you’re aware of that or not, you tend to live into that story. When you discover that every decision you’ve made has brought you to the exact place you need to be, you start looking at your life differently. Instead of being a victim of your past, you begin to see that all signs are leading to the greatest and grandest version of you: it all depends upon the story you tell. Is it your history/herstory – what really happened – or is it what you say about what happened? We see our lives through our own eyes, and that perspective shapes our perception. The ideas in this book will allow you to take a look at the events of your life and make some decisions about the future you choose to live into. You will find that there are random pages throughout the book that are set up for you to share your own story, thought, idea, or information in order to customize this book for yourself or as a gift to someone else. Wouldn’t it be great to receive a book from someone else with the giver’s own thoughts interspersed? It’s a great way to share a little piece of yourself with someone who means a lot to you. Another fun way to utilize the book is to think for a moment about a challenge you are facing or an inspiration you are wanting to discover. Open the book and randomly choose one of the entries. More often than not you will find something that will support you or challenge you (in a good way!) right where you are. I am hopeful that you will choose to accept the invitation this book offers to take a look at the happenings of your life as an observer. The story is yours, and everything you’ve experienced has brought you to exactly where you find yourself right now – which is exactly where you are supposed to be. The honor of your presence is requested – by you, to you!</p>

Own Your Story: The Invitation

Bock, Jodee

Religion & Spirituality

Bock's Office Publishing

The popular belief is that achieving goals gives us external glory when what really compels us (instead of motivates us) is gratitude, not glory. Internal inspiration has far more long-term effects than external motivation. The huge secret is that when you stop looking for external validation, it comes. The glory then is seen as a statement of what is instead of a measurement of worthiness. When you seek outside yourself for the glory you anticipate receiving, you are dependent upon others – diverse others, with various skills and challenges themselves – to present you with their version of whatever trophy you are seeking. If you lead your life in pursuit of others’ permission or approval or support or direction, you will never know which is your own true life, nor who you were created to become. Instead, determine for yourself which goals will allow you to achieve the feeling of accomplishment you desire deep down. Just point yourself in the direction of your dream and start walking. Take in the entire picture, not just the prize you set your eyes on. When you realize that the only response necessary for whatever you are going through is unconditional gratitude, you will see that, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, you’ve had what you were searching for all along. So use the ideas in this book as signposts for you to build your own discernment muscles. Read, contemplate, ponder, disagree, debate, share, reflect and decide which ideas you’ll discard and which you’ll keep – either for now or for someday in the near future. View the world and your place in it as an experiment in happiness and contentment and see what you can do each day to live into that objective. Consider taking yourself out of your own story as you read the thoughts in this book. If you can observe yourself from a different vantage point and allow the ideas you read to give you a new perspective, you may find that you are pursuing goals from a place of inspiration instead of from an external motivation. We all need a bit of each, but if you are always doing your life instead of really living and being in it, you will be an observer instead of a true participant. Allow your goals to bring you to the place of true inner glory and you will really get that wherever you are is exactly where you are supposed to be.

Own Your Story: Goals to Glory

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

<p>P.O.W.E.R. Tools @ Work allows any individual or team to tap into the unique abilities that might be looked at as commodities. But with the proper charge – the soul, the spirit, the POWER – any project can be infused with the talent and skill and gifts that give your organization the edge.In the area of PURPOSE, you will dig deeper into the WHY of actions, beliefs, behaviors, and even those deep-seated thoughts that limit your possibilities.In the area of OPEN-MINDEDNESS, you will focus on Future Pacing, or acknowledging those old stories that might keep you from creating the future of your dreams.WISDOM allows an exploration into the past, not to dwell there, but to learn from your experiences and your knowledge, and to take the lessons from those memories into your present actions.In the ENERGY section you will work on putting language to the way things feel so you can alter your experience, if necessary, to produce those feelings you desire instead.And in the RESPONSIBILITY section you will realize that whatever action you decide to take will produce a result, and the effects of those actions are up to you.At the end of each section you will find a list of tools: Conversation Tools, which give you an idea of what to say in certain situations, and Experiential Tools, which you can use in a variety of ways either for yourself or for members of your team.Tools are resources. They are utilized to assist in accomplishing a task. Often tools are needed when fixing something that’s broken, or when constructing something from scratch. Tools might also be utilized not just to fix or construct something physical, but also to assist in building or repairing something conceptually.The title implies that the tools can be utilized at your place of work, but also that they will only be effective when they are put to work. And since most people work not only at the place that pays a salary or a wage but also when moving any project from start to finish, the tools in this book will be of major assistance in any situation, provided you know what it is you are constructing or repairing.Tap into your individual and organizational POWER and you’ll see that there is no place for force.</p>

P.O.W.E.R. Tools @ Work: Helping Leaders Build a Strong, Engaged & Connected Culture

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Bowker

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